[Haskell-cafe] Streaming bytes and performance

[Don Stewart]

I guess the optimizations that went into making lazy bytestring IO fast (on
disks) are increasingly irrelevant as SSDs take over.
On Mar 19, 2013 9:49 PM, "Peter Simons" <simons at cryp.to> wrote:

> Hi Don,
>
>  > "Using this input file stored in /dev/shm"
>  >
>  > So not measuring the IO performance at all. :)
>
> of course the program measures I/O performance. It just doesn't measure
> the speed of the disk.
>
> Anyway, a highly optimized benchmark such as the one you posted is
> eventually going to beat one that's not as highly optimized. I think
> no-one disputes that fact.
>
> I was merely trying to point out that a program which encodes its
> evaluation order properly is going to be reasonably fast without any
> further optimizations.
>
> Take care,
> Peter
>
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